Mother of all bombs should be used to fight Mexican drug cartels, says Ohio sheriff

A sheriff in Ohio has said there are "good days ahead" if the mother of all bombs can be used to fight Mexican drug cartels.

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones took to social media to share his opinion on the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB), which was used for the first time on Thursday (13 April) by the US in Afghanistan to fight Isis.

He added: "We had persistent surveillance over the area before and during after the operation and now we have Afghan and US forces on the site and see no evidence of civilian casualties, nor are there any reports of civilian casualties."

But Isis claimed that no insurgents were killed in the airstrike. Instead, it suggested that there had been a number of non-combatant casualties.

The bomb – the largest non-nuclear bomb to be used in combat history – is highly unlikely ever to be used to fight drug cartels.